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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Pother \Poth"er\, n. [Cf. D. peuteren to rummage, poke. Cf.
     Potter, Pudder.]
     Bustle; confusion; tumult; flutter; bother. [Written also
     potter, and pudder.] ``What a pother and stir!''
     --Oldham. ``Coming on with a terrible pother.'' --Wordsworth.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Pother \Poth"er\, v. i.
     To make a bustle or stir; to be fussy.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Pother \Poth"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pothered; p. pr. & vb.
     n. Pothering.]
     To harass and perplex; to worry. ``Pothers and wearies
     himself.'' --Locke.
     [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Pother \Poth"er\, n. [Cf. D. peuteren to rummage, poke. Cf.
     Potter, Pudder.]
     Bustle; confusion; tumult; flutter; bother. [Written also
     potter, and pudder.] ``What a pother and stir!''
     --Oldham. ``Coming on with a terrible pother.'' --Wordsworth.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Pother \Poth"er\, v. i.
     To make a bustle or stir; to be fussy.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Pother \Poth"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pothered; p. pr. & vb.
     n. Pothering.]
     To harass and perplex; to worry. ``Pothers and wearies
     himself.'' --Locke.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  pother
       n : an excited state of agitation; "he was in a dither"; "there
           was a terrible flap about the theft" [syn: dither, fuss,
            tizzy, flap]
       v 1: make upset or troubled
       2: make a fuss; be agitated [syn: dither, flap]

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  pother
     n.
     A commotion, a tempest.
     vb.
     1 (lb en intransitive) To make a bustle or stir; to be fussy.
     2 (lb en transitive) To puzzle or perplex.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  pother
     n.
     A commotion, a tempest.
     vb.
     1 (lb en intransitive) To make a bustle or stir; to be fussy.
     2 (lb en transitive) To puzzle or perplex.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  pother
     n.
     A commotion, a tempest.
     vb.
     1 (lb en intransitive) To make a bustle or stir; to be fussy.
     2 (lb en transitive) To puzzle or perplex.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  pother
     n.
     A commotion, a tempest.
     vb.
     1 (lb en intransitive) To make a bustle or stir; to be fussy.
     2 (lb en transitive) To puzzle or perplex.

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Pother /pˈʌðə/
  الضجة

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  pother //ˈpɒðə// //ˈpʌðə// 
  смут, суматоха
  a commotion, a tempest

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  pother /pˈʌðə/ 
  rámus

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  pother /pˈʌðə/ 
  hřmot

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  pother /pˈʌðə/ 
  lomoz

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  pother /pˈʌðə/
  Aufregung 
   see: pothers
  

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  pother /pˈʌðə/
  1. zsörtölôdés
  2. csôdület
  3. porfelhô
  4. bánkódás
  5. gyötrôdés
  6. zsivaly
  7. hûhó
  8. zavar
  9. háborgás
  10. zaj
  11. füstfelhô
  12. izgalom
  13. zûrzavar
  14. lárma
  15. kavarodás
  16. nyugtalanság

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  pother /pˈʌðə/
  1. boğucu toz veya duman bulutu
  2. telâş, gürültü, karışıklık, şamata
  3. başını ağırtmak, üzmek, sinirlendirmek
  4. gürültü etmek.

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  220 Moby Thesaurus words for "pother":
     abash, addle, addle the wits, ado, aggravate, aggravation,
     agitation, ail, annoy, badger, baffle, bafflement, bait, ball up,
     be at, be the matter, becloud, bedazzle, bedevil, befuddle,
     befuddlement, beset, bewilder, bewilderment, bother, botheration,
     brawl, bristle, broil, brouhaha, brown off, bug, bullyrag, burn up,
     burst, bustle, chaos, chivy, clamor, cloud, commotion,
     complicate matters, concern, confoundment, confuse, confusion,
     daze, dazzle, devil, dilemma, discombobulate, discombobulation,
     discomfit, discomfiture, discommode, discompose, discomposure,
     disconcert, disconcertedness, disconcertion, disconcertment,
     dismay, disorder, disorganization, disorganize, disorient,
     disorientation, distemper, distress, disturb, disturbance, dither,
     dog, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, dustup, embarrass, embarrassment,
     embroilment, enigma, entangle, exasperate, exasperation, exercise,
     fash, feery-fary, ferment, fidgetiness, fit, fix, flap, flummox,
     flurry, fluster, flusteration, flustration, flutter, flutteriness,
     fog, foofaraw, fracas, free-for-all, frenzy, fret, fuddle,
     fuddlement, furore, fuss, fussiness, get, gripe, harass, harry,
     hassle, haze, heckle, hector, helter-skelter, hound, hubbub,
     hullabaloo, hurly-burly, inconvenience, irk, jam, jumble, lather,
     maelstrom, maze, melee, mess, miff, mist, mix up, moider, molest,
     muddle, muddlement, mystery, nag, needle, nettle, nonplus, nudzh,
     peeve, pell-mell, perplex, perplexity, persecute, perturb,
     perturbation, pester, pick on, pickle, pique, plague, plight,
     pluck the beard, predicament, problem, provoke, pucker, put out,
     put to it, puzzle, puzzlement, quandary, racket, raise hell,
     rampage, rattle, restlessness, riddle, ride, rile, riot, roil,
     rough-and-tumble, roughhouse, row, ruckus, ruction, ruffle, rumpus,
     scramble, scrape, shindy, shuffle, spasm, spurt, stew, stir, sweat,
     swirl, swivet, tease, throw into confusion, tizzy, to-do, torment,
     trouble, try the patience, tumult, turbulence, turmoil,
     tweak the nose, twitter, twitteration, unassuredness, unquiet,
     unsettle, unsettlement, uproar, upset, vex, vortex, whirl,
     whirlpool, whirlwind, worry
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  n. 喧扰,骚动,混乱;
  v. 使困扰,使烦恼,引起骚动;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     n. 喧扰,骚动,混乱
     vt.
     vi. (使)困扰,(使)烦恼

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